Re: [RFC/PATCH] cpuset: cpuset irq affinities

Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29T21:30:53Z

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> > Do these irqs have any special hardware affinity? Or are they just
> > consumers of CPU cycles that can be jammed onto whatever CPU(s)
> > we're willing to let be interrupted?
>
> Depends a bit, the genirq layer seems to allow for irqs that can't be
> freely placed. But most of them can be given a free mask - /me looks @
> tglx/ingo.

yes - and when they cannot be arbitrarily migrated we just dont move
them (but still keep them attached to that cpuset). The affinity calls
will just fail in that case. Might want to emit a kernel warning but
that's all. (if then it's a hardware constraint)

Ingo